You don’t have to be anything you don’t want to be. You don’t have to live up to anyone’s expectations. There’s no need to strive for a kind of perfection that’s not very interesting to you. You don’t have to believe in ideas that make you sad or tormented, and you don’t have to feel emotions that others try to manipulate you into feeling.
Wise Words: Helen Keller: security
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. . . . Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Wise Words: Rose Tremain
Life is not a dress rehearsal.
Wise Words: Alan Kay: invent
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Wise Words: Robert M. Sapolsky
An open mind is a prerequisite to an open heart.
Wise Words: Hans Christian Andersen
The whole world is a series of miracles, but we’re so used to seeing them that we call them ordinary things.
Wise Words: Susan David
Discomfort is the price of admission to a meaningful life.
Wise Words: Tom Robbins
The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the Universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you’re unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously.
Wise Words: Meister Eckhart: wisdom
Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.
Wise Words: RuPaul Charles
What you really are is an extension of the power that created the whole Universe.
